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Apple is introducing a 'Made for iPhone Duo' badge in the App Store to highlight apps optimized for its new foldable's inner and outer screens, with apps like Netflix, Prime Video, Microsoft Word, and Zoom adapting their interfaces. The $1,999 iPhone Duo launches Friday with limited availability.

An Australian court has ordered Apple to allow alternative app stores, sideloading, and third-party payment systems in a ruling favorable to Epic Games. The decision adds to global legal pressure on Apple's App Store policies.

The author shares practical lessons on how much easier it has become to ship a revenue-generating mobile app using AI-assisted 'vibe coding', combining another developer's 4K-download experience with insights from shipping 25+ client apps.

September 2026 app revenue data shows AI features increasingly gated behind higher subscription tiers, with ChatGPT leading at $417.3M and xAI's Grok entering the Top 30 at #25 with $29.2M amid the launch of Grok 4.7 for paid tiers.

reception 是一款原生 iOS 应用内支持聊天 SDK，帮助开发者降低用户流失、获取 App Store 评论，并支持 AI 自动回复与团队统一收件箱，一行提示即可集成到 Swift、React Native 和 Expo 项目中。

Apple updated its App Store rules to more explicitly ban AI 'nudify' apps that create nonconsensual intimate imagery, requiring developers to proactively prevent such content or face removal from the store.

Google announced several AI features for the Play Store, including an expanded Ask Play chatbot for app discovery, a new Game Finder recommendation engine built on Gamer DNA profiles, and upcoming support for privately hosting and sharing personally vibe-coded apps.

Appto is an iOS app factory for Mac that discovers profitable niches, designs and codes apps, generates App Store pages with ASO copy in multiple languages, and handles post-launch reviews and sales tracking — all running on your existing Claude Code or Codex subscription with no extra token costs.

An indie developer who built a geoguessing game locally using Google Street View and MapKit was permanently banned when AI customer service mistakenly flagged it as a "cyberattack". Their appeal was rejected within a minute by the AI, sparking debate over the black-box nature of big tech's AI-powered customer support.

Paw-Paw 是一款適用於 Mac 的小巧桌面寵物應用，會在你打字時互動、休息時打盹，並透過升級解鎖角色與物品，提供免費原生體驗。

Meta's Muse agent, currently #1 in the App Store, reportedly has a system prompt stating that a user's authority over their own household is unconditional and overrides the model's safety training, raising concerns about safety guardrail overrides.

Alexandr Wang, Meta's new AI leader and Scale AI co-founder, is helping drive the company's AI comeback as its assistant Muse tops the Apple App Store and Meta's stock climbs nearly 20% since launch.

OpenAI's latest features aim to disrupt the traditional app store model by integrating app discovery and usage directly into ChatGPT, expanding its plugin architecture and introducing user-friendly authentication methods.

ShipHappens is a native Mac app that automates App Store Optimization by providing AI-powered screenshot creation, multi-language translation, and review management for app developers.

This article details how LG WebOS enforces telemetry requirements by locking the app store when ad blockers are used, demonstrating forced consent issues under GDPR and providing methods to bypass this gatekeeper.

A developer tool that automates App Store releases from the terminal for all Apple platforms, allowing control over builds, metadata, and submissions.

F-Droid has released its 2.0 update after a decade, featuring a new Kotlin Compose-based UI for better responsiveness and smoother app installations using Google's pre-approval API.

Meta's Muse app has topped the US App Store charts in the past 7 days, outperforming ChatGPT in rankings.

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are using AI agents to bypass Apple's App Store control, potentially reducing the App Store's importance and affecting Meta's revenue. This strategy demonstrates Zuckerberg's adaptability in the tech industry.

The article discusses the success of Muse AI assistant topping App Store charts and introduces Today, a similar AI assistant launching in China on September 24, highlighting its features for automating daily tasks.